Ready to sing songs on LGBTI : Singer Bhattarai

Kathmandu (Pahichan) September 26 – Singer Lochan Bhattarai has said that she is ready to sing the songs about gender and sexual minority if she gets appropriate words.

“If a get a good words, I will sing songs about this community,” Bhattarai said adding that such songs are necessary to give a message that members of this community are equal like other citizens. She, however, said that as members of this community are cheated by birth they need more support.

“They are cheated by birth so they need more support and goodwill, I always respect to them,” She said. Bhattarai further stated that members of this community should be given more rights to make an equitable society. “I do not see any reasons to discriminate members of this community,”

she said. She said that there are some cases of maintaining double standards, and we should remain cautious to them. “People who are showing double standards are harming the rights of LGBTI,” Bhattarai said. She said that genuine LGBTI should not be denied from rights.

There is not a uniform understanding among ordinary people about homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. Even the people who know about variance in this community address saying female, male and transgender. They, however, do not have proper knowledge that transgender have two categories: transgender woman and transgender man.
In this situation, it is not an easy task to inform society about their rights. Even the media and society did not have a positive attitude towards sexual and gender minority such as homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. National media had... Read more